Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Mystery Unboxing from OnePlus.”.
For a lot of people, the next one plus phone is going to be the most exciting device to come and 2019 and in anticipation of that one plus are sent over. This we’ve got the main event on the right. But first, let’s just take a quick look at the Explorer backpack they’ve sent with it see, ya. Oneplus makes backpacks, and this one is probably my favorite from the company. It looks clean, it’s water-resistant, it’s got a fair bit of storage, but there are a few key differentiators.
It’S got this magnetic buckle, which you open just by pulling down and then, when you’re done with the bag, you just let go and usually it’ll lock itself and, of course, because it is made by a phone company they’ve added a secret pocket at the back to Hold your phone alright on to this densely packaged cardboard box they also sent over and when we open this up. There are a lot of things inside, but first things. First, the bullets Wireless. They come with a couple of interesting pieces. You’Ve got this silicon looking case, which kind of reminds me of the back of some of the cases you actually get on oneplus phones. There are a range of ear tips as well as different sizes of hooks to keep them in place if you’re running around, and these are the bullets Wireless and I like them.
They sound good but as with the backpack, there’s a couple of features here which do differentiate them. The earphones connect with magnets and you can use this to play and pause music without actually touching your phone. The magnets aren’t quite strong enough for them to find each other if you just drop them, but as long as you put the earphones together, they do connect and it does work you might have noticed they don’t come with a charger of their own, but using most Smartphone charges you can give them a 5 hours of battery in ten minutes. Alright, for some context on what’s inside this box, take a look at the oneplus sixty McLaren edition, then we’ve got the oneplus 60 and before that came the bomb plus six. If we jump back to 2017 there’s a 5 T, the 1 plus 5 and we’ve not even talked about the limited editions oneplus is made, we’ve got White’s, we’ve got Reds, we even got the more obscure like the 1 5 JCC Plus edition. With that in mind, let’s take a look at this: the box for the 1 3 T.
This phone was the last firm they produced before the 1 5, which felt like a major shift in direction. Underneath the phone there’s a little instruction manual, little sheet of paper, that welcomes you to the device and then the charging cable and the charge that you’re very familiar with we’ve. Also in this box got the 1 3 soft gold edition and something I’m really curious about. Is this phone the oneplus X, but there’s more? This right here is the box for the oneplus 2 and, as you can probably tell now that we’ve moved this far back in the company’s timeline.
Things are starting to look a little different. We’Ve got an instruction manual inside this red box, but the charger and the cable you’re seeing here are very different. This is only a 10 watt charger compared to 22.5 on the new ones, and the cable is still USB type-c but just looks unusual and then this is the oneplus one box, a super exclusive phone. You might remember when this thing came out.
You needed an invite to even purchase one I’ve got to say I like the box, it’s kind of unusual in terms of form factor and the phone is the first thing you’ll see, underneath that you’ve got this well-presented sim ejector tool. You’Ve got the cable this time. Only micro USB, as well as a screen, cleaning cloth and a SIM tray.
So this might be one of the first times ever where someone has had all the main oneplus phones from the oneplus one to the one plus 60 McLaren Edition and there’s quite a few cool things you can do with this much history in one frame. If we lay all the phones out, one thing you might be able to immediately tell is how the company has matured when the first device, the oneplus one came out, the company were trying to smash the past, to redefine the market and the phone’s almost alien, different And exciting shape from every angle really aligns with this message and right up until the oneplus 5. You can see that each new phone is a major redesign, after which it feels like the company’s kind of found what works and has proceeded to iterate on that. As a base now, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Whilst these new phones might look a little less differentiated compared to everyone else that doesn’t change the fact that they’re now more ergonomic and better built than ever before.
Now, I would say, there’s one exception: the oneplus X. It came out just after the oneplus 2, but I think this design is well ahead of its time. It’S got a glass body, it’s got a flat camera bump, and these sham furred edges make it look super premium. It is genuinely the type of form factor that I would consider buying into even for years onwards, of also done a bit of a camera comparison, and in fact this is probably the most phones you’ve seen in one side by side to start with.
When there’s a lot of light, do you can tell the two and the X are already well ahead of the 1 1? There isn’t a huge amount of difference between the 3 and the 5 in broad daylight, but you probably can tell the difference between the 5 T and the 60 you’ll notice. The shadows are a little brighter. The whole dynamic range of the image is a little higher, and just so, you can see the whole journey. This is 1 plus 1 versus 1 plus 60, the earliest to the latest, with the 3t, which is about the halfway point in the middle.
Taking a look at the selfie cameras, you’ll notice, two trends: firstly, how more recent phones are better able to expose the bright sky in the background and also how they tend to be a little subtler when it comes to your beautification algorithms, and here it is start To finish, we haven’t really seen any kind of bump in detail. It’S been all about dynamic range and that beautification quick attempt at a portrait shot. You can see the oneplus one here has a very pasty yellow color scheme and we don’t actually get true portrait mode until the 1 5, the first poem from the company with dual cameras. You can then see this portrait mode maturing with future iterations, with edge detection becoming better, and if you compare at the beginning to the end for this image, quite a big shift.
Alright, the final scenario I wanted to test was night time and you can probably tell the first few phones from the company really struggle. The 1 5 is a marked improvement, but you only start to see a massive shift with a 1 6 and the 60, which are built to work with the company’s nightscape feature, see you looking at the overall trend. The night time performance was consistently weak for a few years, and only recently it’s taken a jump. One of the other things I was really interested in trying it was a performance benchmark.
I wanted to see how much more powerful phones had gotten from the oneplus one in April 2014 to the 1 plus 60 McLaren Edition four and a half years later. Some reason I couldn’t get any benchmark to work on the oneplus X so that phone’s got to sit out this time, but the results for the rest of them are really interesting. So the 16 McLaren Edition has pretty much exactly the same score as the 6 and the 60 run about 65,000, which makes them 50 % more powerful than the 5 in the 5 T, which are hovering just over 40,000. You’Ve then got the 3 the 3t at around 30,000 and then neatly.
The 1 2 fits in just over 20,000 with the 1 1 at around 13. So, roughly speaking, the latest oneplus phones are around five times more powerful than the oneplus one. That’S only four and a half years of hardware difference.
The other thing I thought it would be interesting to test is display brightness, so I’ve pulled up a Google page on all of them turned up brightness to maximum, and you can probably tell comparing the latest to the earliest. There is a massive difference. The oneplus 2 is a fair bit brighter than the 1 1 1 X is the first time they used an AMOLED display. So the display quality is higher. There’S a fair jump between that in the 1 3, which is a first full size phone to use, an AMOLED display and is definitely brighter, but then the big difference, I would say, comes between the 3 T and the 1 5 here in the bottom left corner.
It’S also interesting to see the evolution of the software. You can see the original oneplus one came running, something they call CyanogenMod a super customizable kind of open source software, both the oneplus 2 and the oneplus X. I’Ve got here are Chinese versions which are based on an early version of something they call hydrogen OS. The name might ring a bell and then, with the oneplus 3 onwards, you start to see the development of oxygen OS, the same software that we have today. It just looks very different in its early stages as the ferns evolved, oneplus trimmed the fat. They tried to build a software that focuses on pretty much speed and only having the functions in there that people would actually use. You start to see the evolution of material design as well as gestures as the screens get larger and the need for buttons starts to fall. What I also thought was quite cool is: if you pay attention to the default wallpapers on these phones, they started off. Getting increasingly complicated, they peaked at around the 1 3 3 T and then they’ve slowly gone back to being simple again, which aligns better with material design. Oh yeah, and take a look at the fingerprint scanner situation. You’Ll notice, the oneplus one doesn’t have one the oneplus 2 introduced it in the home button, but then the oneplus X skipped it. If then got the 3, the 3 T and the 5, which all have the same fingerprint scanner as the 2 in home button. But then, on the 5 T and the 6, it’s been shifted to the back of the phone. It’S only on the 60 and the 60 McLaren Edition that you see a fingerprint scanner built into the display. If you enjoyed this video, I’ve got a ton of mystery. Unboxings on the channel, as well as another interesting one coming, so if you could subscribe for that, it’ll be amazing.
As always, my name is Aaron. This is mr. who’s, the boss and I’ll catch you in the next one. You .